Some quick links, stats and fun in advance of Wednesday’s rematch of the ’93 Finals….

Ian Levy over at Hickory-High conducted an in-depth analysis of how Amare and Nash have fared without each other individually as well as how the Suns are coping without STAT as a team. It’s well worth the read, but to summarize [...]

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Steve Nash won his first MVP award in large part because of how bad an otherwise spectacular Suns team was in his absence during the 2004-05 season.
Although I doubt Nash will ever be known as “Three Time,” the contrast between Saturday’s ugly loss in Charlotte and tonight’s pretty (offensively at least) 123-116 win over Houston [...]

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Suns 123, Rockets 116
Just when it looked like the Suns were gaining some momentum after big wins over the Lakers and Nuggets, everything seemed to go south.
First it was Robin Lopez, who was ruled out for “several weeks” with a sprained knee. Though he had been struggling, Lopez’s defensive presence and size can’t be replaced [...]

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Tied at 58 apiece with nine minutes remaining in the third quarter, the injury-depleted  Suns were hanging tough with a Bobcat team that swept them last season.
From that point, however, it was all Charlotte as the home team went on a 25-8 run to blow out the Suns, 123-105, scoring on its next 11 possessions.
The backbreaking sequence was [...]

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Bobcats 123, Suns 105
To say it’s been an up and down week for the Phoenix Suns would be an understatement.
One game they’re drilling a franchise-record 22 triples in a win over the Lakers, then following it up with a gutsy win against the Nuggets. But when competition ramped up and legs got tired, the Suns [...]

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